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Networking timeline
1940 - George Stibitz uses a teletype machine to send instructions for a problem set to his Complex Number Calculator in New York and receives results back by the same means.
01 March 2007
1958 - The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is formed by the US government to expand America's technological frontiers, in response to the USSR's launch of Sputnik 1 the previous year.
1961 - Leonard Kleinrock at MIT publishes the first paper on packet-switching theory.
1962 - JCR Licklider of MIT publishes a paper discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. He envisions a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone can quickly access data and programmes from any site.
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